At last – some real ideas about how to bring dignity, kindness and respect back to parliament:
AJ Fitzwater ⬛🟪⬜️🟨
@ajfitzwater.bsky.social
Feral cryptid from the void writing well bent SFF. they/them causing may/hem. “The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper”: http://books2read.com/u/3kpE6L "No Man's Land": currently unavailable. Website: ajfitzwater.com Repped by: @knifewitch.bsky.social
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If you don’t look you can’t see, or, the consequences of Southern invisibility in national arts funding. flatcityfieldnotes.com/2026/08/03/i...
If you don’t look you can’t see, or, the consequences of Southern invisibility in national arts funding
Erin Harrington on the lack of South Island investment in Creative New Zealand’s Arts Organisations and Groups (AOG) funding round, including the news that South Island organisations collecti…
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Found out Steadfast Books had moved to Addington. Done a great job of curating sections. Decent Rainbow shelf. Nice dig-in front table. Found a couple of my own and signed 'em 😉
Incredible that this piece lays out what's happening on the ground (it's dire), yet Goldsmith's reply is pure gaslighting.
Has the arts sector ever done it this hard?
One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.
Grateful to the people who spoke to the Spinoff for this piece, Ed included (“of course I understand, I’m a fucking doctor” is an all-timer line) Unsurprising to see the Committee basically shrug their shoulders on the hypocrisy of this decisionmaking. It’s an artificial concern.
It's release day! Like sea magic? Ghostly ships? A queer protag with ADHD? Tides of Time has all this and more. It's available on all the usual platforms at: books2read.com/b/tides3 Or start the series at books2read.com/b/tides1
Thread. When traditional media simply refuses to play ball CIRCUMVENTING is the only smart play.
You know how I wasn't going into detail about how good the Greens political communication strategy has been and why? I CHANGED MY MIND. The umbrella under which everything else fits is that the Greens understand the mainstream media landscape is hostile to them, and act accordingly. 1/? #nzpol
Release day tomorrow! Looking forward to launching Tides of Time into the world: books2read.com/b/tides3
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Tides of Time by Andi R. Christopher
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Godzilla-sized Haast Eagles throughout NZ to keep us on our toes
i think we should genetically engineer a *larger* haast eagle, so that our nation's children don't grow up to be weak.
I'm forever going to be That Person with moafax if my book gets published.
Haast's Eagle went extinct because moa went extinct. There isn't the food source for Haast's Eagle unless wild deer numbers go up to an environmentally hazardous rate. Also, if Haast's Eagle were big enough to attack and carry away moa, they could do the same for humans.
New Zealand once had the Haast's eagle, an extinct species of eagle that preyed on moa and lived in the South Island. Scientists around the globe are working together on bringing back species that went extinct due to humans. Get in contact with your local universities and zoos.
it's easy to look at the absurdity of the claims and the obvious falsity of the Satanic Panic but once you look more closely it becomes clear that the Satanic Panic was largely a war against women in the workplace and against confronting how common physical and sexual abuse committed by fathers is
This is correct in so many ways I do not have the energy to elaborate upon right now, because the satanic panic was far more sinister than you probably know
1. This account is new, follows more people than follow it back, and would like to introduce itself properly. queerspeculativefiction.org is a free monthly catalogue of new queer speculative fiction, researched by hand, with the representation detail publishers increasingly leave off the cover. 🧵
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1802) Transwrongsbot. Listen, validation and love is all very well, but at some point things get bad enough that action is required as a matter of simple survival. It's time to protect trans rights by doing some trans wrongs.
Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions
Hey, #SDCC #sdcc26 goers - my lesbian capybara pirate escapades "The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper" is in stock at the Sofawolf booth! Stoked to have my work at SDCC, 12 years after I first went.
A walk around our Booth #1236 at San Diego Comic-Con 2026. Come find your next great Furry story! #sdcc #sdcc26 #cci
Having my work at SDCC, even in a small way, is a buzz/bingo square.
Hey, if you're at #SDCC this weekend and want a paperback copy of my lesbian capybara pirate escapades "The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper", head over to the Sofawolf booth!
A walk around our Booth #1236 at San Diego Comic-Con 2026. Come find your next great Furry story! #sdcc #sdcc26 #cci
Large FOMO and regret and delight watching Critical Role live at Edinburgh Castle. What a vibe.
I'm terrible at marketing my own books but it's posting here or dancing on tiktok and I can't dance to save myself
yo you should read my books, if The Locked Tomb is a goth girl they're her punk friend who reeks of tobacco www.simonandschuster.com/series/The-E...